By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I know that I’m going to heaven, not because I’ve been good or even good enough. When I get to heaven, it will be despite my sins – despite my never being able to satisfy God’s high bar of morality sufficiently. On the day of God’s wrath, I will […]
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Access to Heaven
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “My mother-in-law loves the Lord, and at 88 years old, she’s eager to go to heaven. A couple of years ago, she had surgery for a sizeable non-cancerous tumor in her abdomen. However, doctors told her that the surgery could still be life-threatening at her advanced age. Despite the […]
No Entrance Exam to Heaven
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I am persuaded that our good deeds never merit salvation. To merit salvation would mean to earn it or to deserve it. The deeds would have to be so good, so perfect, with no mixture of sin in them, that it would impose an obligation upon God to grant […]
No False Halos in Heaven
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League July 6, 2021 It seems everyone is a Christian today. A young woman once told me that she was a Christian too; she just didn’t want to be one like me. She was living with her boyfriend, smoking dope, and engaged in various debaucheries. She practiced this way […]
Survey Reveals Most Church Members Hope to Get into Heaven by Being Good Enough
By Rev. Mark CreechChristian Action LeagueAugust 14, 2020 The late and renowned evangelist, Dr. Billy Graham, once said: “There are many who sit in churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and consequently not […]
About Elitists, Rednecks, Uneducated Buffoons, Bigots, and Deplorables
By Rev. Mark H. Creech Christian Action League January 31, 2020 Recently, I attended a worship service in a small rural church in North Carolina with a segment of our country’s citizens, who, by the standards of many today, would be deemed as rednecks, uneducated buffoons, bigots, and deplorables. Because of their support for President […]
Access to Heaven
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Every person must make his choice between the two ways – man’s way or God’s way. One is the way of self-effort and striving to cure one’s self and to provide one’s own redemption; the other way is justification through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.” –Dr. Billy […]
No Entrance Exam to Heaven
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew
Stop Using the Bible as an Excuse Not to Be Politically Involved
By Gary DeMar GaryDeMar.com Does the Bible forbid Christians from being involved in politics? It would be a hard case to prove since there are numerous books of the Bible that are filled with politics — from Joshua, Judges, and 1 and 2 Samuel to 1 and 2 Kings and the Old Testament Prophets. King […]